Thursday, April 06, 2006

On Judas and Latin musicals

Ok, in case anyone's actually missed it, here is the link to National Geographic's Lost Gospel of Judas page. It's an excellent site and includes images of the actual document, a transcription, and an English translation. Would that such things were available for other texts!

In much more AMUSING news, there is apparently a Wheelock's Latin Musical of sorts. Really, it's just a bunch of songs about Latin grammar, from what I can tell. That is actually good and probably very useful, but I was hoping for a real story-arched musical. Personally, I think Ecce Romani would make a hilarious musical. We could even do it in Latin!

Ok, I wasn't going to say it here originally, but since you've brought it up... I'm SO glad I'm not the only one who is convinced on that Cornelia et Flavia relationship. I mean, that girl was NOT overwhelmed with joy in the first sentence in which she said she was overwhelmed and speechless or whatnot over that marriage.

I might have, maybe, at some point written Ecce Romani fanfic on this, err, subject.

Glaukôpis has finally, after five years, graduated with BAs in Classics, English, and history. She will be heading off to England shortly to begin grad school in Classics. The blog will continue chronicling her academic endeavours as well as whatever interesting Classical tidbits she notes along the way. Glaukôpis' parents hope that she does not pick up a British accent in her year abroad. Glaukôpis herself thinks this would be quite amusing.

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"Without Latin you should just stay in bed!" - Fr. Reginald Foster, Chief Latinist of the Vatican

"But I have never gone away from them. How can an educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science." - Albert Einstein

"I would beg Leave to ask whether any People in any Age or Country ever defended and preserved their Liberty from the Encroachment of Power without suffering present Inconveniences. The Roman People suffered themselves to be defeated by their Enemies, rather than submit to the Tyranny of the Nobles" – John Dickinson, 1768

"Befriend the scroll, the palette. It pleases more than wine. Writing for him who knows it is better than all other professions. It pleases more than bread and beer, more than clothing and ointment. It is worth more than an inheritance in Egypt, than a tomb in the west." - "Papyrus Lansing," Nebmare-nakht